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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1956
Page
8
County guidance covers spring plowing and equipment checks for tractors including flushing oil use, replacing filters, and ensuring power for plows. It advises field plow adjustments, silo planning, and site selection, with emphasis on moisture control, drainage, and ease of filling for horizontal silos.
Maryland wool growers face a second year of the incentive program starting April 1. The payment depends on the market price received and the national average return to wool growers of 62 cents a pound. if 15% is needed, payments align to that share of the grower’s sale. Bradley notes shoppers may gain by seeking better prices for the 1956 wool crop and emphasizes producers aim for higher quality to boost prices and incentives.
Church trustees and Sunday School members met Tuesday evening to discuss building a new Sunday School room at the rear of the church to connect with the existing structure.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Wroten hosted a Sunday dinner with Greenwood guests Mr and Mrs Lawrence Cannon and sons and Mrs Sallie Wroten. Afternoon calls came from Mr and Mrs Lyman Wroten and family of Greenwood. Nearby clergy and friends visited over the week including Rev W Lawson Jump and Rev Wm I Quillen with others from Preston. Additional visits included Elbert Stevens of Wilmington and Mrs Arthur Krouse of Harrington to Mrs Margaret Breeding, and Wilmington guests of Mr and Mrs Charlie Stevens. Visitors to Mr J N Drummond included Mrs Harry Willis and children from Andersontown and Mrs Frank Beauchamp of Harrington. Further dinners and visits linked Mr Isaac Noble and Mrs Marshall Andrew with Wayne of Lincoln, Evah O Day of Greenwood, Woodrow Passwaters and Beverly of Denton, Wilmer Nagel and family of Federalsburg, and Freddie Torbert with Mrs Harry Bowdle, plus Floyd Messick hosting last Saturday’s supper.
Robert Messick of Farmington and the Warman Morgans of Claymont visited James Foxwell’s family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Clarence Foxwell welcomed a son born Saturday at Memorial Hospital Milford.
Mrs Roland Cartwright hosts Billy Smiths birthday party as neighbors and relatives gather. Barbara Brown returns from Memorial Hospital after a broken leg. Local families from Wilmington Manor Gardens and Greensboro visit, while Pvt Donald Shively visits on furlough. WSCS thanks supporters of a bake sale. Sewing Circle meets with plans for hall refrigerator and Easter breakfast. Film All That I Have shown at Goldsboro Methodist Church. PTA to sponsor Games Party. children sell brooms for building fund and sponsor Sunshine Bag for Don Cohee in Milford Hospital.
Erle Stanley Gardner recounts how a diligent sheriff traced a slim clue to clear a bank hold up suspect. The story appears in the March 11 issue of The American Weekly magazine in color gravure with the Baltimore Sunday American.
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